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Detained, missing, close to death: the toll of reporting on Covid in China
Activists say crackdown is driven by Xi Jinping, who has ‘declared a war on independent journalism’Chen Kun wa…
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Hong Kong ‘patriots’ election casts doubt over democracy as city enters new era
Critics describe Sunday’s vote as ‘illegitimate’ as Beijing tightens its crackdown on dissent and pro-democrac…
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Nicaragua cuts ties with Taiwan and pivots to China
Central American country becomes latest to switch allegiances to Beijing, amid escalating tensionsNicaragua ha…
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China: editorial says Communist party members must have three children
Article that says ‘no party member should use any excuse’ to have only one or two children goes viral then dis…
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Journalists in China face ‘nightmare’ worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says
Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Ko…
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China attacks US diplomatic boycott of Winter Games as ‘travesty’ of Olympic spirit
Beijing dismisses no-show and says American officials had not been invited in the first place, as other countr…
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China ‘modified’ the weather to create clear skies for political celebration – study
Researchers say Beijing used cloud-seeding to create artificial rain and lower pollution in July, in latest ex…
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Xinjiang: Twitter closes thousands of China state-linked accounts spreading propaganda
Content was often ‘embarrassingly’ produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts sayTwitter has sh…
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Beijing warns China-linked US businesses: you cannot ‘make a fortune in silence’
Vice-foreign minister Xie Feng tells industry figures to push US government toward a ‘rational’ China policy a…
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Airbnb allegedly hosts Xinjiang rentals on land owned by sanctioned group
Listing properties on land owned by XPCC, which has been linked to human rights abuses, risks breaching US reg…
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Chinese ex-official on trial for corruption as Xi Jinping’s purge continues
Former vice minister of security Sun Lijun accused of extreme ‘political ambition’ and leading a corrupt and e…
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China bans celebrity rankings in bid to ‘rectify chaos in the fan community’
Authorities increase regulation of fame and fan culture that they say will tackle online bullying and protect …
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Chinese Communist Party 100th anniversary: Xi Jinping vows China will never be bullied – as it happened
Tight security in Tiananmen Square as country marks CCP centenary and China’s president warns against oppressi…
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Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, symbol of pro-democracy movement, to close
Tabloid founded by Jimmy Lai and targeted by police raid last week will print final edition on Thursday‘The bl…
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Hong Kong police arrest editorial writer at Apple Daily newspaper
Arrest of journalist who publishes under the name Li Ping is the first of a writer at the pro-democracy newspa…